The Role: This role will be responsible for the development of product, industry sector and solution messaging, sales enablement assets and go-to-market strategies that are utilized in global and regional sales and marketing efforts. Their market, product and customer insights will help align business priorities and Product Management initiatives within the Sales & Marketing functions. The Product Marketer delivers personas, competitive intelligence, sales enablement assets, and product, sector and solution messaging as well as identify and define broad market themes in support of all global and regional programs and events plus key projects including product launches, enhancements and discontinuations. They will undertake an analytical and data-driven approach to understanding the market by identifying the target audience and matching customer needs to solution opportunities. They will also take an analytical and data enabled approach to validating and communicating the impact of product marketing activities.
Grade ( relevant for internal applicants only ): 10
The Location: Houston, Denver, London
Responsibilities:
Work with Product Management leads to understand their strategy and define product marketing strategies to meet business objectives
Provide a balanced combination of strategic thinking, market knowledge and project management, collaboration with Marketing functions and hands-on application of the marketing strategy.
Work with Sales leads and Sales Training lead to identify the types of sales enablement materials that are appropriate to support prospect & customer conversations per PRG Sales Methodology application.
Represent product marketing strategy and objectives in relevant Marketing Taskforces and Commodity Communities
Optimize and standardize the development of customer value propositions, based on the challenges, wants and needs of target personas in target industries across the team
Develop simple, highly differentiated and values-based product, sector and solution messaging for the relevant target audience.
Develop customer-facing assets that map company and solution capabilities to customer needs across different stages of the customer journey, working with the Demand Centre to ensure creation meets demand expectations.
Analyze metrics to help team identify what is and isn't working
Consider new and innovative ways to connect with our audience
Drive continuous performance improvement through the identification, documentation and implementation of product marketing best practices
What We're Looking For Basic Qualifications:
Degree in Business, Marketing or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience in industry.
Proven experience in Marketing or in Product Marketing
Strong written and oral communication skills
Strategic thinker with analytical and problem-solving mindset
Ability to build strong relationships across the organization.
A strong customer-focused attitude; confident in dealing with multiple departments and senior management within the business.
Excellent planning and organizational skills with strong attention to detail, with an ability to take the initiative and deliver projects unsupervised.
Confident to ask appropriate questions to eliciting information to interpret and synthesize information.
Marketing planning
Vendor management
Presentation skills
Budget management
Preferred Qualifications:
Strong B to B marketing experience
Understanding of emerging data delivery technologies
Knowledge of the commodity markets a plus
Experience using marketing automation, Marketo or Pardot a plus
Experience building and managing retention programs a plus
Experience working with CRM, salesforce a plus
Understanding of modern sales and marketing concepts including the following a plus;
Buying cycles
Customer lifecycles
Product lifecycles
Customer Experience
Customer Journey
Complex Sales
Solution selling
Inbound Marketing
Persona development
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20 - Professional (EEO-2 Job Categories-United States of America), MRKTNG202.1 - Middle Professional Tier I (EEO Job Group), SWP Priority - Ratings - (Strategic Workforce Planning)
Job ID: 258934 Posted On: 2021-02-11 Location: Houston, Texas, United States
